Scriptural Names » Aramaic

Yeshua Meshiach

Tim Carriker — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:42:17 +0000

Language: Aramaic

Pronunciation: Ye-shu-ah Me-shi-aacc

Meaning: “Jesus Christ” or “Messiah Jesus”; Yeshua is a contracted form of Joshua, which means “Yahweh is salvation”: “Christ” is from the Greek form of “Messiah”, which is Hebrew for “annointed.”

King of kings and Lord of Lords = 777

Tim Carriker — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:44:07 +0000

In Revelation 19.11-21, Jesus is described as the Divine Warrior (rider of the white horse) who has inscribed on his thigh the title, “King of kings” and “Lord of lords” (v.16). When these two titles are transcribed back into Aramaic, as shown below, the numeric equivalent of the spelling adds up to 777 (the numeric equivalent of each letter is listed below the letter). He is the antidote of the hellish warrior in 13.1 on whose heads were “blasphemous names” and the beast whose name is hidden by the number 666 (13.18). In Aramaic, “King of kings” and “Lord of lords” is written like this:

Here is an artist’s depiction:

Cephas

Tim Carriker — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:24:29 +0000

Cephas means “stone” in Aramaic and is written like this:

abba

Tim Carriker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:53:51 +0000

Abba means “father” in Aramaic.

Ancient Near Eastern Alphabets

Tim Carriker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:52:11 +0000

There are various ways to write Aramaic, just as other languages often have more than one script. The Aramaic language of the ancient Assyrians derives from the Phoenician, whose alphabet was as follows:

Ancient Aramaic was written like this:

Compare that with the script of other ancient languages:

Biblical scholars today generally use the Hebrew alphabet and characters as the same alphabet to write in Aramaic.